It’s been awhile

It’s been quite some time since I’ve put anything up here, so this may end up being a rambling mess.

Hoopeston Area lost a good superintendent last Saturday to an apparent heart attack, Mr. Conolly will be missed.

At CITES, I’ve been working on an RFP for a solution to support our DNS infrastructure. The most I can do is to link to a similar effort being run by The University of Michigan. Hopefully ours will be on the street sometime in January, then I get to work on a committee to evaluate the proposals and maybe some evaluation equipment.

On consulting sites:

  • Hoopeston Public Library has a recently reinstalled IPMasq/Squid box and new “free” wireless service powered by PublicIP’s ZoneCD.
  • Crown Ford and the other dealerships in Hoopeston are now using OpenVPN for securing the traffic between them and we are actively monitoring the bandwidth usage on those links.

The holidays are coming up, I’m not sure what to get anyone, as usual. Hopefully the utilitarian gifts and gift certificates will work again this year. Now, if we can just make it home without borrowing a trailer to haul Robin’s gifts in.

And, as usual, I’m way behind on getting pictures of Robin posted. Maybe next week after we’re done driving all over the Illiana area…

More Pictures

Many more Robin pictures up on the gallery: August 15, September 11, and September 13.

September 13 needs some explanation, the green block vibrates when you pull on the foot of the frog on one face. Robin figured out that you need to pull it to make it vibrate, but he couldn’t get a good enough grip with his fingers, so he tried his teeth. And the sequencing:

Maybe I can pull this!
Maybe I can pull this!
Progress
Progress


Farther!
Farther
Success!
Success!


What are these toys?

Please settle a dispute between myself, my wife and several of our friends and relatives: What insect, animal or being would you classify each of the toys below as? They do not all have to the be same, but if you think they are, that is fine also. Please post your answers in the comments, thanks.

Toy 1
Toy 1


Toy 2
Toy 2


Toy 3
Toy 3



Larger pictures in the galleries.